A look inside Northern Tool and Equipment. The store opened its first Mississippi location in Jackson at the 5469 I-55 Frontage Road site in September near Big Lots and Cowboy Maloney's.

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The venerable shopping plaza at the corner of I-55 and Briarwood Drive in north Jackson doesn't have the glitzy appearance or fancy landscaping that marks so many of the metro area's retail centers.

It doesn't even have a formal name. But it boasts something the newer generation of shopping centers would like to have - 100 percent occupancy.

The Jackson plaza is best known as the home of Cowboy Maloney's Electric City Superstores' flagship location. But the center, which was reeling just two years ago from tenant departures, store closings and a fire that destroyed another business, has ...